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Daily Cybersecurity Update, March 08, 2024

Five notable happenings today in the cyber world:

The NCSC-Switzerland said that the Play ransomware attack at Xplain impacted 65,000 important documents of the Federal Administration. The documents were from various administrative units, including the Federal Department of Justice and Police, the Federal Office of Justice, and the Federal Office of Police.

Researchers show new technique to bypass AI safety guardrails in Grok and Gemini

A new hacking technique has been demonstrated to steal data from Elon Musk's Grok AI. It uses a simple trick...
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Researchers show new technique to bypass AI safety guardrails in Grok and Gemini

About thousands of leaked AWS keys Held Full Admin Rights

More than 9,300 AWS access keys that were made public from August 2022 to August 2026 are still active, says...
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About thousands of leaked AWS keys Held Full Admin Rights

US Bank investigates LockBit’s Data Breach Claims

US Bank is looking into LockBit's claims about a breach and stolen data. The ransomware group says they will share...
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US Bank investigates LockBit’s Data Breach Claims

Five new malware families actively targeting Asian Gov.t infra

Central Asian government agencies have been attacked in a cyber spy operation that used a small but different range of...
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Five new malware families actively targeting Asian Gov.t infra

T-Mobile Cuts Cables to Remove Chiness Salt Typhoon Hackers from Network

T-Mobile’s cybersecurity team reportedly physically cut a network cable connecting compromised infrastructure to the outside world. According to Bloomberg, the move...
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T-Mobile Cuts Cables to Remove Chiness Salt Typhoon Hackers from Network

Splunk, Zyxel Patch Multiple Flaws Enabling RCE and Root Command Execution

Splunk has issued security fixes for 17 weaknesses in different apps and add-ons, such as Splunk MCP Server, Splunk AI...
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Splunk, Zyxel Patch Multiple Flaws Enabling RCE and Root Command Execution

“Zombie Card” attack revels expired Visa card may be used for contactless payments

Security experts have shown that expired credit cards can still be used. A study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst,...
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“Zombie Card” attack revels expired Visa card may be used for contactless payments

Critical Zimbra RCE Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild

CERT Polska has alerted that bad actors are actively exploiting a security flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite to execute code...
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Critical Zimbra RCE Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild

Operation CameraSwarm
A single hacker compromise 1400+ Dahua camera worldwide 

Operation CameraSwarm compromised 14,500+ Dahua IP cameras mostly in Ukraine and Russia. The operation lasted for at least 35 days...
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Operation CameraSwarm  A single hacker compromise 1400+ Dahua camera worldwide 

Cl0p Ransomware Listed 40+ Victims of PTC Windchill Campaign

The Cl0p ransomware group has listed over 40 organizations that they say they targeted in a recent attack. This attack...
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Cl0p Ransomware Listed 40+ Victims of PTC Windchill Campaign

The NSA and CISA issued five cybersecurity bulletins about securing data in the cloud. The recommendations cover implementing IAM solutions, encryption, and key management.

A report by FS-ISAC and Akamai showed that DDoS attacks on the financial sector increased by 154% in 2023 compared to 2022, mainly due to strong botnets and cyber hacktivist groups.

Tycoon and Storm-1575 threat actors carried out spear-phishing attacks on U.S. school districts in November 2023. They used Microsoft 365 credentials to bypass MFA protections.
The Rhysida ransomware group sold data stolen from Lurie Children’s Hospital for 60 bitcoins (approximately $3.4 million) on the dark web. The hospital is working on restoring the affected systems.

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